Wednesday, September 13, 2017
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

Registration
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System Requirements:

NISO has developed a quick tutorial, How to Participate in a NISO Web Event. Please view the recording, which is an overview of the web conferencing system and will help to answer the most commonly asked questions regarding participating in an online Webex event.

You will need a computer for the presentation and Q&A.

Audio is available through the computer (broadcast) and by telephone. We recommend you have a set-up for telephone audio as back-up even if you plan to use the broadcast audio as the voice over Internet isn't always 100% reliable.

Please check your system in advance to make sure it meets the Cisco WebEx requirements. It is your responsibility to ensure that your system is properly set up before each webinar begins.

About the Webinar

Digital literacy. Data literacy. Those are just buzz phrases. Or are they? What degree of expertise should students and faculty have in order to effectively wrangle data and/or work with digital assets? What are the basic requirements in the modern workplace or laboratory? It’s no longer a question of mastering word processing or spreadsheets. Whether it is data science or digital humanities, what enables us, what qualifies us to work with digital assets? And how do we know?

The second portion of this two part event is scheduled for September 20, 2017. Having identified gaps in understanding, this follow-up segment will feature case studies from those institutions that have assumed leadership roles in training students and faculty in emerging tools and methodologies for working with digital materials and generating new digital assets.

Digital Literacy for Artistic Researchers and Practitioners
Madelyn Washington, Digital Learning Librarian, Berklee College of Music

Distinctly contemporary in its content and approach, Berklee’s comprehensive curriculum demands that the students develop nuanced understandings of a data-driven music industry and born-digital intellectual property. Integral to the instructional efforts in the Stan Getz Library, the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, has informed the co-curricular developments of Berklee Librarians. Engaging with various threshold concepts and utilizing formative assessment technologies, Berklee Librarians are more clearly beginning to identify the information needs of the contemporary multi-literate performing arts scholar. This presentation will articulate an emerging understanding of knowledge practices and dispositions of contemporary music scholars and practitioners.

Digital Learning Librarian, Madelyn Shackelford Washington, has been with Berklee College of Music for just over a year and leads the Stan Getz Library in the development of instruction, research and reference programs for a student body of contemporary performing artists and practitioners.

Directed by Provost Susan Wente to get insight into faculty thoughts and concerns regarding digital literacy, I have interviewed numerous faculty throughout summer 2017. In my presentation, I will provide our working definition and discuss the ways its potential implementation—both in terms of curricular and non-curricular means—has been shaped by faculty goals, insights, and capacities. Ultimately, my discussion is an attempt to explain what faculty think is important and necessary as a campus becomes digitally literate.

John M. Sloop is Associate Provost for Digital Learning and Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. Sloop has been at Vanderbilt for 22 years and has served in a wide variety of faculty and administrative positions.

Libraries' Support of Media and Data LiteracyKaty Kavanagh Webb, Head, Research & Instructional Services, East Carolina University Libraries

As the purveyors of literacy on campus, the library may be centrally poised to be the location where students will come for help with data literacy projects. Libraries are coming up with innovative ways to engage students in this dialog. Some are creating data visualization labs. Others are hiring a librarian or technical staff to consult with students and faculty. This talk will be an overview of some of these innovative spaces, as well as an overview of services generally offered by libraries that build data literacy.

Katy Kavanagh Webb is an Associate Professor at Joyner Library, East Carolina University. She serves as the Head of Research and Instructional Services and oversees a team of 11 that is responsible for teaching over 350 instructional sessions a year and supports the research questions of the nearly 29,000 students at ECU. Her forthcoming book, Academic Libraries Supporting Media and Data Literacy, is being published in 2018 by Chandos Publishing.

Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday,September 13, 2017. Cancellations made by Wednesday, September 6, 2017 will receive a refund, less a $25 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.

Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the webinar via e-mail the Monday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.

If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10 a.m. (ET) on the Tuesday before the webinar, at please contact the NISO office at nisohq@niso.org for immediate assistance.

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.

If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact NISO Office to provide alternate contact information.

Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free webinar connection as part of their membership and DO NOT need to register for the event for this free connection. Your webinar contact will receive the login instructions the Monday before the event. You may have as many people as you like from the member's library view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections beyond the free one, then you will need to enter a paid registration (at the member rate) for each additional connection required.

Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.

Registrants and LSA member webinar contacts will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived webinar recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's or member's organization.